Articles of Note

To Oscar Wilde, there was no such thing as a moral or immoral piece of art. Why has this view fallen out of favor with critics?... more »

New Books

E.P. Thompson suffered an endless series of heroic defeats but refused grubby compromises and went down guns blazing... more »

Essays & Opinions

Art in an age of self-exposure. Gone is the withholding of secrets — novelists now put self-consciousness front and center... more »